odbo sounds theatre
Whether it is touched, rubbed, hit or blown, each object reveals its own personality, holds a dialogue or a soliloquy, shapes landscapes, and, moved within a circular space, it gives way to your imagination.
Inside the circle, a woman, a man, resonant objects. Basic materials, objects found on the spot, primitive instruments (bows, tubes...) moving around, rubbing against the walls and floors, discovering the sound of the place, with a multitude of intensities, densities and textures. Volumes of sounds create the shapes of an imaginary landscape, meeting and leaving each other, landing nearby and suddenly taking off. A living acoustic universe comes onto the scene. Around the circle, those who look and listen, hear and see, those who dream, smile and compose their own vision of this abstract microcosm. Every one sits in the front row, involved through their breathing, their slightest movements and their heartbeats. In the intimacy of the circle, sounds overflow into other senses and sensations. You can feel them through gentle touches or light breaths, and see them through the gestures that give rise to them. The circle promotes the circulation of energy and the feeling of conviviality, of being together instead of facing each other. Then everyone can feel this unlimited confidence in the unexpected that gives rise to spontaneous and free improvisation. The circle is a simple, nomadic and ancestral area of expression, which can be set up everywhere with no need for specific equipment. odbo offers a sensitive experience to everyone who is ready to listen, with either wide open or firmly closed eyes, and to let themselves go with their imagination.
Roland Devocelle and Audrey Rocher are the “actors” of this duo. He coming from music, she coming from acting and being a clown, their work is a combination of these two experiences of live performance, sound, dramatisation, relation to the audience or improvisation, and is also enriched by their interest in plastic arts. Since 2004, they have chosen a nomadic way of life, as a logical continuation of their artistic work. Always on the move, it is improvisation applied to daily life, meeting and listening to the world.
Technics Circular “stage” space: 3,50 m minimum (the audience sits around on chairs or on the floor) No sound system required (unplugged instruments) Electricity desirable (for light) but not absolutely necessary Duration: 30 to 60 minutes Audience max: 50 people Setting up time: 45 minutes Dismantling time: 45 minutes We can create upon a given theme, upon the sound of a place, or as a result of meeting local improvisers. Roland DEVOCELLE Audrey ROCHER 00.33.(0)6.84.36.83.57
[email protected] http://atsara.site.free.fr
Parcours Roland Devocelle, born in 1969. Self-taught musician and composer. Came to free improvisation through jazz and free jazz saxophone. Audrey Rocher, born in 1977. Self-taught musician and clown. Came to free improvisation through clown art and improvised music with the trumpet and trombone. Their first creation together in 2000 (clown and music show) was the beginning of their common work with sounds – which has been followed by an exploration of the acoustic characteristics of all kinds of objects or materials – and of their interest in the relations between sound arts and other artistic expressions. Since then, they have been in several artistic collaborations based on musical and multiart free improvisation, with painting, clown art, dance... with Felip Costes (painter), Jean-Marc Eon (drums), Antony Maubert (objects, electro-acoustics), Luc Bouquet (drums), Stéphane Gauchon (objects, electroacoustics), Amaël Ferrando (voice). They performed at Albert Marzelle Museum (Marmande - France), Blinzelbar gallery (Hamburg – Germany), « Café-lecture Les Augustes » (Clermont-Ferrand - France), Théâtre Lakanal - Pierre Tabard (Montpellier - France), Denmark's Intuitive Music Conference (Svenborg - Denmark), Zieu M Zic Festival (Rennes le Château - France), Symposium Improvisierte Musik (Kleinsassen - Allemagne)… They also organise concerts in private houses , “at your home”, in order to develop other ways of sharing performed arts and to introduce improvisation to a wider audience. In 2005, they created atsara, sounds and pictures gallery on internet. On the road, they have shared improvisations with many artists... Ulrich Philipp (bass), Wolfgang Schliemann (drums),Corinna Aikmeier (cello) , Thorsten Bloedhorn (guitar) , Reinhard Gagel, Peter Geisselbrecht (piano), Brigitte Küpper (voice), Christian Kaufmann (vibraphone), Karin Kubecka (dance), Petra Lehr (dance), Dirk Marwedel (saxophone, objects), Katharina Sommer (flute), Michael Vorfeld (percussion), Norbert Zajak (voice), Fine Kiatowsky (dance), Heiner Metzger (clar., sax.), Sylvia Necker (drums), Hannes Wienert (sax), Ge Suk Yeo (voice), Wittwulf Y Malik (cello), Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen (French horn, piano), Tim Summers (violin), Eduardo Sérgio (clarinet), Tamaho Miyake (piano, theremin), Daisuke Terauchi (objects), Eckhard Weymann (piano), Almut Kochan (cello), Til Lawrence (voice), Jutta Hoppe (violin), Dario Garau Setzu (piano), Mette Stig Nielsen (piano), Henrik Rasmussen (piano), Helene Jerg (cello), Gerhard Pischinger (flute), Peter Sterk (cello) , Franck Passelaigue (guitar), Hermine Le Herle (voice), Sébastien Tarot (text), Claude Ballogh (guitar), Alain Gourvennec (bass),Julien Martin (larynxophone), Sylvain Marty (percussions), Nicolas Souchal (trumpet) from the Musique en Friche syndicate…
Roland DEVOCELLE Audrey ROCHER 00.33.(0)6.84.36.83.57
[email protected] http://atsara.site.free.fr
